Financial Crime Paralegal - #1769723

Job Description | Financial Crime Paralegal

Department: Risk

Location: London

The Team

The Risk Department provides support to the firm's senior management and to the wider business, to ensure that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards of professional conduct, optimally manages risk and ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

The Role

The role is to provide risk and in particular financial crime compliance support to the firm's General Counsel, COLP and COFA and to the wider business, to ensure that the firm develops and maintains the very highest standards in the manner in which the professional standards of conduct are applied in client relationships, in its management of risk and its compliance with regulatory requirements. The role will also assist in promoting best practice in these areas throughout the firm's international network. The successful candidate will work with paralegals and in-house lawyers in the Financial Crime Team, which is part of the Risk Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing support on financial crime projects
• Researching legal and regulatory issues and assisting in the production of related guidance, practice notes, templates and training material
• Assisting with the planning, preparation of minutes and follow-up actions from the Financial Crime Committee
• Drafting financial crime regulatory updates and bulletins
• Assisting with the administration of the sanctions manager inbox with the Risk paralegals.
• Performing of sanctions, adverse media and PEP checks.
• Maintaining and updating the financial crime-related material on the Risk Team's intranet pages.
• Helping with the administration and delivery of training and awareness programmes and materials for lawyers and other staff.
• Assisting with the regular review and updating of the firm's policies and procedures, maintaining the PEP, High Risk Client, Sanctions Tracker, ABC and other documentation and records.
  
  

Experience And Skills Required

• Educated to degree level
• Experience working in a leading Central London or major regional firm.
• Strong organisational, communication and project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills - the person will liaise with both lawyers and business services groups, in each case at all levels of seniority.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to focus on detail but also on the larger picture.
• Basic IT skills including using Excel
• Ability to write clear, accurate and practical guidance and precedents.
• Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness
  
  

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our Values Are The Principles That Guide The Decisions We Make, Unite Us In Our Endeavours And Strengthen Our Delivery, For Our Clients And Our Firm. We

• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The Competencies Are Used To Inform All Aspects Of Business Services Career Development. They Vary Across Levels And Different Business Areas And Fall Under The Following Areas

• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness
  
  

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 490 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.

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